>> One wonders why divine "intelligent causation" is "ruled out",
considering it is the majority view of everyone else but scientists!
>>
Reasonable question, of course. But not if "science" is a "game."
Players in a game of monopoly "know" that there is a real world outside
the playing board, but they never let their tokens leave the board!
Anyway, why must "majority opinion" have anything to do with it?
A majority of mericans (probably) read and "believe in" their
daily horoscopes; should a scientist also follow?
For all I know, a majority of scientists may believe in
divine causation, but "belief" is not part of the game they play.
Burgy